write it in the sand

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand:
"Today, my best friend slapped me in the face."  
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a swim. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him.
After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:
"Today my best friend saved my life."

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone,why?"
The other friend replied "When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."

I read this in the church paper today and it made me think that you should not only write when someone hurts you in the sand, but your hurts in general. It's a good metaphore for letting go of the things that made you mad, sad, angry, depressed, etc. Yes, you'll still remember those things, but just thinking of them being washed away helps in letting them go.

It makes me want to get a sandbox for my backyard! ...or move to the beach. :o)

Anyway, I haven't written in a while. My life's pretty boring these days. D works, of course, and I've got the summer off. Wahoo? Not so much. I'm bored out of my mind. It'd be different if someone else had the summer off that I could spend time with. Don't get me wrong, I'm super thankful that as a teacher, I get this mini break to refresh my mind. I guess it'd also be different if D wasn't having to stay at work unti 7 or 8:00 every night.

I suppose I will make a list of things to do until my class starts next week!

Happy July everyone!